Guitar Funked Up

Photography

We took photographs of our band members out and about.

These photos will be used on their website and also the CD /DVD cover.

Manga

We've decided to have a brief look at Manga because it is a comic book equivalent in Japan.

Here is a video of Amy drawing an anime/manga character.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWwlxJXSMi4
http://www.youtube.com/user/conebe#p/u/4/93CI-Vw5f4Y

How to draw comic book characters

I thought that it would be useful to research how we would draw our own comic book characters. It is a possibility that we create our band members as comic figures for our digi-pack.

Comic Book / Digipack Research

This is our mood board / collection of comic book images and pages. We did this as research for our digipack and will help inform the way our final design will look.

In our video we've used fonts, speech bubbles, boxes, etc... that we found were common in the comic book style.

Digipack Research: Analysis of "Riot!" Cover

This album cover is very much like a scribble from a sketch book. The word 'Riot!' which is the album title is bright orange and a larger scribble than the others words. If you look closely you will notice that the words are infact the credit of the album.

The album title is the main text and is central to the cover, the picture of the band is also sketch like, as they are in black and white. The image is directly below the title, drawing attention to both.

The band name 'Paramore' is not featured on the album cover itself, it is however written on the hinge of the CD case. This is down to the band being popular and their image alone is enough for fans to recognise them.

Additional Dialogue

After looking at our audience feedback we decided to add some extra dialogue to the opening narrative sequence. We decided to do this because the feedback suggested that the opening was too quiet and this made it boring.

The dialogue will be added to the third scene in the sequence to flesh out the narrative of the couple having issues & to explain more clearly why the girl decides to slap the singer & leave.

We will also be adding some sound effects to the first part of the sequence to explain why the singer leaves. We may also add an audible sigh to make the girl's reaction clearer.

We will be recording the dialogue sometime next week.